Neowin News Feed for: Mirai

New year brings bad news for Linux as 2021 saw up to 10 times more malware samples

Sayan Sen — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:30:02 +0000

According to a CrowdStrike report, Linux malware and malware samples have increased by a lot in 2021 as compared to a year prior. One of the malware types has seen submissions increase by tenfold. Read more...

Cloudflare says it handled the most monstrous DDoS attack ever like a total champ

Sayan Sen — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:34:02 +0000

Cloudflare says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever with the help of its in-house DDoS protection daemon. According to its data, this massive attack brought in 17.2 million requests per second. Read more...

Akamai's State of the Internet finds DDoS 'mega attacks' are increasing

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:38:01 +0000

The latest report from the content distribution company shows that the number and overall scope of distributed denial of service attacks has gone up over the last year, even if that growth has slowed. Read more...

Security researcher Brian Krebs believes to have discovered who created the Mirai botnet

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:02:01 +0000

Brian Krebs has been investigating for months how the Mirai botnet came to be and who's behind the infamous distributed denial of service attacks from last year. Now he thinks he has answers. Read more...

FTC offering up to $25,000 for help in securing IoT weaknesses

Joel Shedroff — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:44:01 +0000

In light of the DDoS attack that utilized IoT devices to cripple huge swaths of the internet last October, the FTC has launched a contest to find creative ways to secure "smart" products. Read more...

Hacker publicly releases 'Mirai' code, which was responsible for the largest DDoS attack

Justin Luna — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:20:01 +0000

The source code for what is known today for launching the biggest DDoS attack has been publicly released. The disclosure spread fear among website owners, as anyone could be the next victim. Read more...